1. Innovating Faster with
Continuous Application Security
By Jeff Williams, CTO and co-founder Contrast Security
@planetlevel

2. The Average
application is
extremely
vulnerable
71%unused Libraries
26.7Vulnerabilities
2Vulnerabilities
8%USED Libraries
21%Custom Code

3. DevSecCon Boston 2018: Building a Practical DevSecOps Pipeline for Free 3
You are
Under
AttacK

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Traditional AppSec Doesn’t Scale
Experts
Expert
Tools
Application
Portfolio
Assurance
Coverage
Process Fit
Awful
Results
$$$$
Traditional AppSec
Program

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DevSecOps Is Very Promising
5
https://itrevolution.com/the-three-ways-principles-underpinning-devops/
1.Establish work flow
2.Ensure instant feedback
3.Culture of experimentation
1.Establish security work flow
2.Ensure instant security feedback
3.Build a security culture
DEVOPS DEVSECOPS

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Continuous Application Security
Security in development Security in integration Security in operations
PROTECT
• Tell me who is attacking and how
• Stop vulns from being exploited
• Don’t create alert fatigue
ASSURE
• Don’t slow down my builds
• Integrate with my testing tools
• Real vulns break my build
EMPOWER
•Test my custom code and libraries
•Realtime feedback through my tools
•Don’t slow me down

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IAST and RASP
Runtime Application
Self-Protection (RASP)
•Prevents exploit ofvulnerabilities
in both custom code and libraries.
Your Application or API
Config
Sensors
Code
Sensors
Control Flow
Sensors
HTTP
Sensors
Backend
Sensors
Data Flow
Sensors
Library
Sensors
Exploit
Prevented
Vulnerability
Confirmed
✘
Interactive Application
Security Testing (IAST)
•Detects vulnerabilities in both
custom code and libraries

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A Fully Automated Pipeline with Security
Development CI/CD/QA Operations
IAST IAST/RASP RASP

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Adding IAST/RASP to PCF application
9
cf login
cf push spring-petclinic
cf create-user-provided-service contrast-security-service
-p "teamserver_url, username, api_key, service_key”
cf bind-service spring-petclinic contrast-security-service
cf restage spring-petclinic

10. 10
• Must be extremely accurate
• Must work on modern apps with APIs and OSS
Test my custom code AND libraries
• Must integrate with tools I’m already using – NO PDF!
Realtime feedback through my tools
• Must not create bottleneck – NO SCANNING!
Don’t slow me down
Security in
Development

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Automation is all about speed, accuracy, and ease-of-use
11
OWASP
Benchmark
Free and open
application
benchmark with
thousands of
security test cases

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Download an IAST/RASP Agent
12
1. Download 2. Install 3. Enjoy
agent

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Empower developers to assess their own security!
13
PRODDEV CI/CD
APIs Containers
PrivateCloud
APIs ContainersPrivate
Public Cloud
Custom Code
- and -
Open Source

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Security in Everyday environment
14
IDE ChatOps Browser
Others:

15. 15
• Fully automated security testing with every build
Don’t slow down my builds
• Plugins, integrations, webhooks, and FULL REST API
Integrate with my testing tools
• Set criteria for when to break the build
Break my build… but only for real issues
Security In
Integration

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Fail the build
16

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Automatic Bugtracking Integration
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Measuring Attack Surface
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19. Jumpstarting Your DevSecOps Pipeline with IAST and RASP | @planetlevel 19
Measuring
Security Testing
Coverage

20. 20
• I need actionable threat intelligence
Tell me who is attacking and how
• Must not overblock (FP) or underblock (FN)
Stop vulnerabilities from being exploited
• Don’t warn me about meaningless probes
Don’t create alert fatigue
Security in
operations

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Protect Applications and APIs with RASP
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Custom Code
Open Source
Libraries and
Frameworks
Application Server
and Platform
• PREVENTS Known
Vulnerabilities from exploit
• Prevents LATENT
Vulnerabilities from exploit
• Fast response to prevent
NOVEL vulnerabilities from
exploit

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RASP Deploys with Your Application
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• Ansible
• Puppet
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Whatever…

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RASP Protects Against OSS Vulnerabilities
23
March 7
CVE-2017-5638
Disclosed, Apache
releases fixed version
March 8
We observe
widespread
attacks
Mid-May
Equifax
breach
occurs
July29
Equifax
learns of
breach
Sept 7
Equifax discloses,
Four more Struts2
CVEs disclosed
No updates
You must have
infrastructure to respond
within hours.
DisasterNo detection

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RASP Supports Complex and Backend Protocols
24
Application
Untrusted deserialization Name:
Smith, James
Record ID:
123456
Owner:
Finance
Application expects to
receive this object
Bad Guy
AcmeInternalType#cmd:
java.lang.Runtime
AcmeInternalType#mtd:
getRuntime().exec
AcmeInternalType#args:
‘cmd.exe’,’/C’,’calc’
AcmeInternalType#cmd:
java.lang.Runtime
AcmeInternalType#mtd:
getRuntime().exec
AcmeInternalType#args:
‘cmd.exe’,’/C’,’calc’
Attacker sends malicious object

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RASP Is Fast
25
+50 µs 100x faster than wafRASP
waf +5 ms

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RASP Provides AppSec Threat Intelligence
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Continuous Application Security
Security in development Security in integration Security in operations
PROTECT
• Tell me who is attacking and how
• Stop vulns from being exploited
• Don’t create alert fatigue
ASSURE
• Don’t slow down my builds
• Integrate with my testing tools
• Real vulns break my build
EMPOWER
•Test my custom code and libraries
•Realtime feedback through my tools
•Don’t slow me down

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Fully Continuous AppSec

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Contrast Community Edition
21,000,000 DEVELOPERS
IN THE WORLD AND
ONLY 6% HAVE ACCESS TO
DECENT SECURITY TOOLS
Contrast CE is a totally free and full-strength application
security platform combining:
• Assess web apps and APIs for vulnerabilities (AST)
• Monitor open source (SCA)
• Runtime exploit prevention (RASP)
Faster, more accurate, more scalable, better integrated,
and more DevSecOps-friendly than any other application
security solution.
Coming Soon:
https://www.contrastsecurity.com/contrast-community-edition

30. > Go Fast and Be Secure.
Try Continuous Application Security Now!
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